• Title
  Australian flowers, ca. 1830 / probably by Lady Elizabeth Darling
• Creator
  Eliza Darling, Lady, 1798-1867
• Call number
  PXB 1026
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1830
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  837003
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  8 watercolours (1 portfolio) - various sizes approximately 10 x 8 in.
  
• Scope and Content
  Series of 8 original watercolour drawings of plants growing in New South Wales, in portfolio with a watercolour drawing on the front cover, lettered "Australian Flowers", ca. 1830
  
  f.1 Eupomatia Laurina
  f.2 Dampeira Stricta?
  f.3 Callistemon Jasminoides?
  f.4 Eriostomen Buxifolia
  f.5 Tecoma Jasminodes?
  f.6 Boronia Serrulata
  f.7 Epacris etc.
  f.8 Epacris etc.
• Description source
  
  Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009.
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  On the back of each is written: 'From nature, by E. Darling - Grows wild in the neighbourhood of Sydney".
  Only two are named.
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  The artist is probably Elizabeth Darling, wife of Sir Ralph Darling, 7th Governor of New South Wales
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--New South Wales.
  
• Topic
  flowers
  natural history illustrations
  botany
  
• Place
  Sydney (N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE14535501

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